Paragraph 88 of the Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. B. Education and Training of Women
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/10/19
Strategic objective B.6.
Promote life-long education and training for girls and women
Actions to be taken
88. By Governments, educational institutions and communities:
- Ensure the availability of a broad range of educational and training programmes that lead to ongoing acquisition by women and girls of the knowledge and skills required for living in, contributing to and benefiting from their communities and nations;
- Provide support for child care and other services to enable mothers to continue their schooling;
- Create flexible education, training and retraining programmes for life-long learning that facilitate transitions between women’s activities at all stages of their lives.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The actions of the communities, educational institutions, and the governments amount to collective efforts of a society to improve its own lot through the improved livelihoods of the women and girls in the nation-state.
There is an emphasis in this paragraph on the availability of the educational and training programs for women and girls. This is for the early life fulfillment of potential for girls and the later-in-life retraining of adult women (more often than not).
The contributions to and living within a community and nation require a reciprocal relationship between the nation-states systems – “communities, educational institutions, and” the government – and the individuals living within the country.
The child care and other support are important for the flourishing of mothers. Because these provisions of social support systems can permit a mother to pursue an education in spite of the challenges of, likely, breastfeeding, and childcare and housecare, and, often, more than the man in each of the latter two departments.
That is known. The ability to pursue an education in a flexible manner is fundamentally important to the health and wellness of individuals in the society, and for the economic viability of the nation now.
The idea is to encourage and provide some modicum of stability, maybe even a lot in fact, for women and girls to be able to become independent and lifelong learners.
Of course, there are robust systems in place in several societies with the distinct and clear, and not unique, intent to restrict this through belief in magic, in male authority without much warrant or minimal justification, and assertion of some things as fundamentally mysterious and, therefore, best left unexamined.
Literally, not an original thought pattern: magic, mystery, and authority as a means of the control of women; we can see this applied to education and to other rights restrictions of women.
But with the lifting of these through popular struggles and international pressure, we can see the increased flourishing and range of possibilities for women “at all stages of their lives.”
–One can find similar statements in other documents, conventions, declarations and so on, with the subsequent statements of equality or women’s rights:
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Preamble, Article 16, and Article 25(2).
- Convention Against Discrimination in Education (1960) in Article 1.
- The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) in Article 3, Article 7, and Article 13.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).
- Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984).
- The Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1993).
- Beijing Declaration(1995).
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000).
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (2000).
- The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa or the “Maputo Protocol” (2003).
- Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence or the Istanbul Convention (2011) Article 38 and Article 39.
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